| บทคัดย่อ(English) |
The objective of this study was to investigate thesituation of the village drug cooperative funds in Nong Chokdistrict, Bangkok, using a cross-sectional descriptive studies.The study population consisted of 517 committee from all of thedrug cooperative funds in Nong Chok district and 15 public healthofficers who involved in these funds. Health interview surveyswere used for those committee and the in-depth interviews wereconducted among the health officer group. The results showed that most of committee were male whichage between 41-60 years old. Most of them were married andfinished primary school. Their main occupations wasagriculturists with average incomes between 25,001-60,000 bathper year and worked in the drug funds for more than four years.They have positive attitudes towards the funds and goodunderstanding of the objectives of the funds. Regarding workingsystems, most of the drug funds had only one person responsiblefor operation act as a drug seller. Forty-nine percent of thefund had no formal meeting for coordination among the committee,49% had no financial account and 88% of them never had accountingaudit. The major obstacles were the turnover of some unsold drugsand lack of cooperation among committee. For the health officers,most of them had positive attitude towards the drug fundsespecially their concepts. However, they suggested that the fundsshould not establish in the developed area. Although theyunderstood the objectives of the drug fund they thought that thefunds should be adapted for their future survival. Lack ofcontinuous monitoring was the problem in the audit system due toservice overload and transportation. It was also found thatincome, work experience and attitude of committee as well assupporting and monitoring system of the officers were associatedwith survival of the drug funds. It also found that most populardrug in the fund was analgesics. |
